I
have been in Alaska for the past two months and came home a few
days ago. I will write about my Alaska adventure later because
we have more important business to talk about. The Alabama
Legislature has wisely put the Alabama Historical Commission
under continuous review and oversight. We hope to eventually
make that corrupt and incompetent agency start to serve the
people of Alabama. On June 21st of this year, a 250 page
report on the AHC was prepared and given to the Sunset Review
Committee. This report is mostly dry reading and most of us
would not understand the reasons for some of the info in the
report. The examiner who was responsible for the report told
me that his job is to find information and evidence. This info
is made available to the Sunset Committee and to the public.
The examiner does not point a finger at the bad guys. He just
shows the documentation and we must point fingers ourselves. I
have known for some time that employees of the AHC have forced
people to pay bribes to them. One particular example is
recorded in the report. I enclose all the correspondence of
this extortion and will try to explain how this happened.
Remember, this is just one example and the examiner is trying
to get the information on other such mitigation and bribery.
What happened was Mr. and Mrs. Morris were building a branch
bank on their property in Birmingham. The FDIC told them to
get the AHC to give them a clearance letter. This should have
been done immediately by the AHC but instead the employees of
the AHC namely Dr. Warner and Elizabeth Brown with consultation
of their lackey lawyer Bill Little, decided to force Mr. and
Mrs. Morris to pay mitigation. (BRIBE)

Remember, these people
were put in their positions during ex Governor Seigleman's
reign of corruption. Seigleman and his staff said that payoffs
for positions or favors were standard operational policy. The
ex Governor has been found guilty of accepting money for favors
and now faces time in prison. Thankfully, Governor Riley has
forced Dr. Warner to resign and now we need to pursue criminal
action against the people who forced Mr. and Mrs. Morris to pay
this bribe. When you read the letters that were written, you
must understand that these houses were not listed or eligible
for the National Register of Historic Places. No property can
be eligible without the owners approval. No one had ever
applied for eligibility and the owners did not want any
historic listing. The other thing to remember is that no one
in Alabama can ever determine eligibility for the National
Register of Historic Places. The only person in the United
States that can determine eligibility is the Keeper of the
National Register in Washington D.C. That person is Janet
Snyder Mathews PHD, Associate Director of Cultural Resources
and Keeper of the National Register. We are lucky that the
federal government kept this authority and did not let these
greedy, power hungry bureaucrats in state have more power than
they should have. I usually believe in states rights but in
this case I'm glad to have the feds keep the bad guys from
legally stealing from us. As it is, they stole from Mr. and
Mrs. Morris and it was not legal. The property was not
eligible and Ms. Brown lied when she said it was. Making
Alabama citizens pay an illegal bribe is not acceptable and we
must try to get our state authorities to investigate the guilty
parties and force them to pay for their dirty deeds.
Hopefully, our Attorney General, Troy King, will take actions
in this matter. I will ask my legislators to see that he does
and I hope you will ask yours. Please read all these letters
(page 226-243) and thank you for showing an interest in your
state. Here is a link to the letters http://www.ssdsupply.com/AHC.htm